Five Common Rails Mistakes | Mike Perham

5 common Ruby on Rails mistakes. I've done 3 and 4.

Great tips. It seems like in particular point 2 is getting a lot of attention recently – as apps are growing larger, developers are realizing that software engineering concerns about code organization actually apply to the work that we’re doing with Rails. There are some good books coming out, like Sandi Metz’ Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby that articulate some of these concepts really well. Re: point 5, I tend to use find_each (which calls find_in_batches internally) to gain the benefits of reducing returned result size without having to use a nested block.

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